Christ is our help because…
He is Connected v.14 “Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.” The word connection means two things. 1. Christ is fully God and fully man. He is connected in that way. Both being the son of God and being in the form of man. 2. Christ is connected that he experienced the pain that we experience. Philippians 2:6-8 “who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.”
He is Compassionate v.15 “For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.”
John 11:35 “Jesus wept.”
He is Our Confidence v.16 “Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.”
Philippians 1:6 “And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.”
Literally: “grace for a well-timed help.”
Christ’s Help Is Always Well-Timed
a. God sets the seasons by his authority for His timing.
Acts 1:7 “He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority.”
b. God’s perspective on time is different than ours.
Psalm 90:4 “For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night.
2 Peter 3:8 “But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.”
c. God’s timing will usually appear strange to us.
d. God sets the times for nations to rise and fall.
Acts 17:26 “And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place“
2 Thessalonians 2:3–6 “Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, 4 who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God. 5 Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? 6 And you know what is restraining him now so that he may be revealed in his time.”
How is Christ’s help on-time?
The Savior’s Birth (Galatians 4:4) But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law,
The Savior’s Death (Romans 5:6) For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
The Savior’s Work (1 Timothy 2:5–6) For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time.
The Savior’s Return (1 Timothy 6:14–15) to keep the commandment unstained and free from reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, which he will display at the proper time—he who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords,